As you can see this is one piece of a five-part essay. If you’d rather read it all at once, you can find it in barneywiget.com. “I don’t trust Christians,” said Pascal. “They know too much about God.” Of course he spoke sarcastically, since he knew that what we think we know we most likely …
What God is Like (Musings on the character of God) #6
It began to seem that his blessings were more randomly than uniformly distributed than I had once believed. The “God-always-does-this-and-not-that” approach to which I had previously ascribed didn’t seem nearly as valid as it once had. I used to think that he distributed blessings at more predictable increments along our path. Now it seems like …
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EVEN IF IT SEEMS LIKE I’M AGAINST YOU, TRUST ME
[This is the second of fourteen passages that sustained me in the while in the dark.] Though He slay me, yet will I trust him. Job 13:15 Besides Psalms, Job was my favorite book on which to muse while inside the deepest section of the tunnel. I like to think of Job as the Bible’s “Biggest …
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“Jobian”…
[Another random selection from the memoir I'm finishing up...] We ignore the ambiguity that accompanies our finitude, and thus we claim to know what we can't know. We reduce the unfathomable complexity of the cosmos to the capacity of our finite minds. When we do this, we invariably end up blaming God or indicting victims. …
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